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by gsf_emergency 524 days ago
Relevantly: I saw (on ACM site) a decades old(!!) heretical essay (="heressay"?) which argued

    That there is *NO* gap between theory & practice.
(at least in Computer Science, & not in the eponymous eschew-first-principles Science cults of physicist Feynman's fame )

  Sounds familiar?? I cant find it now, someone please help?
:(

EDIT:

And Programmers, unlike Cargo Cult Psychotherapists of TFA's source, do quantitatively try to make deals with the spirits (in the machine)???

"In theory there is a difference between theory and practice - in practice there isn't"

-- Not [Comrade] Yogi Berra